LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-New yams are beginning to flood markets in Onitsha, the commercial city of Anambra. A survey by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday showed that farmers from agrarian communities such as Anam and Ogbaru brought their yam produce to Marine Market, Onitsha, to sell to the public. NAN reports that the farmers,…
LAGOS JULY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general election, Mr. Peter Obi, has asked Nigerian Muslims to use the solemn period of Sallah to present Nigeria’s discomforting situation to Allah for divine intervention. Obi said in a message on Wednesday to mark the Eid-el-Kabir festivities by Muslims,…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Director of Rehabilitation Centre for the Disabled, Old and Tramps, Ozubulu (RECDOT), Dame Rosemary Odunukwe, has said that the Centre would henceforth commemorate Mr. Peter Obi’s annual birthdays holy mass and prayers, as well as with the cutting of Obi’s birthday cake. She said Obi’s presence at such occasions would not…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s Professor Charles Egbu, who was recently appointed the first black Vice Chancellor of Leeds Trinity University, United Kingdom, has won the praise of Mr. Peter Obi, the Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections. In a statement released Thursday by his Media Office and signed…
LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has expressed sadness over the death of Madam Janet Kukah, the mother of the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Hassan Kukah. In a condolence message made available to the press on Saturday, Obi commiserated with…
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria is “saddened” by the sale of two sculptures belonging to the south-eastern Igbo community, an official from the Nigerian National Commission for Museums and Monuments, has said. A prominent art historian had called on the renowned auction house, Christie’s, to cancel the sale. Prof Chika Okeke-Agulu told the BBC the two…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The founder of Las Vegas Pain Institute and Medical Centre who is also seeking the governorship of Anambra State under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Godwin Maduka, has debunked the allegation the he gave a bribe of One Million Dollars to the Vice Presidential Candidate of the party, Mr. Peter Obi,…
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Commissioner for Information during the administration of Mr. Peter Obi in Anambra State, Chief Barr. Joe-Martins Uzodike, has said that the incumbent Willie Obiano administration lied by claiming that it inherited 96 roads from his predecessor when in actual fact he inherited only 52 roads. Uzodike was reacting to a documentary…